Read the excerpt from "The Think Tank".Shumaker is delighted with Azy's mistake. "Azy's mistakes are more interesting than his right answers," he says. "When he saw the bags, he didn't pick a symbol that meant food, such as 'apple.' He didn't pick a verb, such as 'open.' He picked the one other symbol that meant an object, a container. I think his mistakes show that he's putting these words into categories in his mind. Maybe this can teach us a little bit about how he thinks."Which statement best explains how the passage supports the author's purpose?The purpose is to instruct; the author wants readers to know they themselves can train orangutans to understand language. The purpose is to criticize; the author believes that the orangutan experiment has no credibility. The purpose is to persuade; the author is proving that Azy is the smartest orangutan in captivity. The purpose is to inform; the author is bringing readers' attention to Azy's humanlike behavior.

are you asking for an essay and whats the story?

the author motivation is to show the power of animal-human relationships.

the third paragraph is your answer,

"but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "

most people   learn at a very young age like 8 or 9 or even 10 but usually teenage years is when